Here’s my test with the Wacom Bamboo pen and the new Surface Pen. I wont go much in details about this but what has to be said in the image. The activation force is the only difference between those and the V pen.

While it’s great and all. In my honest opinion it’s simply not worth paying more just for this. I did some production work with all the pens and the activation force was a problem for none of them. When you hold the pen in a writing/drawing position, you unconsciously put more than 20g of pressure into the screen.

In conclusion. After testing the V pen, the Surface Pro 4 pen, the Wacom Bamboo Pen and the New Surface Pen, the pen I will keep is the SP4 one for the rubber tip this and being less expensive than the rest.

Regarding poor pen performance while charging, I’ve found that keeping my other hand in contact with the metal body gets rid of most weird behaviour. Obviously that’s not the ultimate solution, but for now at least it mitigates most of the inconvenience.

Thanks. I’m not so savvy that I know how to intercept the signal from the button and reassign its ID, but I’ll have a play around when I get time and see what I come up with. I’m pretty sure they’re not just right click and fn, though. Lower button does nothing on the desktop and I don’t see any fn functions working with either of them.